Dear All,

I asked recently for ideas for where to find videos of patients talking about their experiences.   Thank you for your suggestions.    Here is  a list of sources, in addition of course to YouTube, which I think used wisely could be very valuable here.

Mental health

Animated minds
www.animatedminds.com
A series of animated documentaries using real testimony from people with mental health problems.

Mental Health Foundation
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/podcasts-and-videos

Mental Health TV
http://www.mentalhealthtv.co.uk/ free to view, but only at the moment?

MIND
http://www.mind.org.uk
Videos (also on YouTube) are on the pages relating to specific conditions.  See also http://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/your-stories/

Royal College of Psychiatrists
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/discoverpsychiatry/podcasts.aspx

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
http://www.slam.nhs.uk/patients-and-carers/patient-information/recovery

More general or other things

College of Occupational Therapists
https://www.cot.co.uk/ot-helps-you/what-occupational-therapy
The videos are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_nbpD7l7j9flvBbpChK1XbCqyfnlzRfz. 

HealthTalk / Youthhealthtalk
http://www.healthtalk.org/home
Information about health issues, through sharing of experiences.  A partnership between DipEx, an Oxford based charity, and the Health Experiences Research Group of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care at the University of Oxford.

Kings Fund
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/term/Patient-experience
Blog posts.

NHS Choices
http://www.nhs.uk
Use the search box, and look in the results for “NHS Videos”

NHS tools
http://www.nhs.uk/Tools/Pages/Toolslibrary.aspx
Includes apps and online tools, but also videos of carers’ experiences of dementia, and videos for young people about mental health. 

Pain Concern
http://painconcern.org.uk/exploring-patients-experiences-struggling-to-be-me-video/
Living with chronic musculoskeletal pain.  Also available on NIHR YouTube channel.

Parkinsons Disease Society
http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/tags-forum-and-website/real-life-stories

Patient Stories
http://www.patientstories.org.uk/
“to provoke debate about safety and patient experience in healthcare”.  Videos include one about sepsis, and another about MRSA and C diff.  You would need a licence to use the videos in educational contexts.

Patient Voices
http://www.patientvoices.org.uk/
Digital stories about healthcare.  Use the search box to locate things of interest.

Patients Like Me
http://news.patientslikeme.com/media-kit/videos, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQop4yFjrXxPyWaYWYfTCNg
Online patient community.   Has has work published in peer reviewed medical journals, and editorials in the BMJ.

Self Management UK
http://selfmanagementuk.org/blog/2013/07/community
Long term conditions.

Society for Participatory Medicine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7s0qsbYnRTdzHo7Jz3KheQ/videos
American based charity working to encourage active involvement of patients and carers in health care.   Society site is at http://participatorymedicine.org/

Best wishes,

Keith

Keith Nockels MA (Hons) Dip. Lib. MCLIP FHEA
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